The rest of the trip
This story is just a subplot of the North-America trip. If anyone's interested, I can Gaz them a not-so-detailed write-up of the rest of the two-month trip (minus the last two weeks).

I wrote this from memory in the weeks after the trip (although I didn't write the last bit until much later).

@chickenlady
I deleted a few bits of the original to remove any hints that could identify either of us in the real world.

She was precisely 3 years older than me (she was 32 at the time we met), she had long blonde hair, and both of us failed to come across as the people we were in our profiles (both of us described ourselves as cartoon-characters or merry pranksters). Perhaps it was just shyness and too many distractions. Perhaps we might have even had something in common in that respect. My first Internet Dating experience was more positive - both of us turned out in real life to be exactly the same people we were online.

@G-Lo:
But I did - twice.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:18, Reply)